Sunday, March 21, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Facebook VS Google;
It's easy to get numbed by the traffic stats for Facebook: more than 400 million users, the average user spends 55 minutes a day on the site, 3 billion photo uploads per month. At some point the stratospheric numbers just start to run together. Maybe that's why seeing a new metric in visual form, via this chart from Hitwise, stopped me in my tracks:
The headline around the Web was that, for the first time, Facebook had eclipsed Google as the most-visited site in the U.S. for a full week. Previously, Facebook had hit No. 1 on a few big holidays, like Christmas and New Year's Day. That makes sense—everyone is home and uploading photos from that digital camera Santa left under the tree, or furiously untagging photos from the night before (respectively). But for the week ending March 13, the biggest holiday I could find was Registered Dietitian Day. It's clear from the chart above that Facebook's days of needing major events to eke past Google are over.
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Πραγματικά απορώ. Τέτοια τρέλα με το Facebook άνευ λόγου και ουσίας. Και ούτε καν συνουσίας.
Άντε και σε χειρότερα ρεκόρ. Για να με κάνετε να γελάω περισσότερο με τα χάλια σας. Να σας έχω παραδείγματα προς αποφυγήν.
Άσε που όποιος συγκρίνει για οποιοδήποτε λόγο το Facebook με τη Google τα έχει παίξει εντελώς ή είναι άσχετος ή είναι βλακάκος ή είναι βαλτός.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Beta 1
The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. This is the first Ubuntu 10.04 beta release, which brings a host of exciting new features.
Note: This is a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released on April 29, 2010.
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Κατεβάστε την beta από εδώ!
Διαβάστε το σχετικό forum εδώ.
Ε-Ε-Έρχεται! Έρχεται το Ubuntu 10.04 λέμε!
Το iPad θα αλλάξει το μέλλον των φορητών συσκευών
ΜΗΝ ξεχνάς μεγάλε ότι θ' αλλάξει το μέλλον της πληροφορικής και γενικά το μέλλον της ζωής μας, σε ΟΛΟΚΛΗΡΟ τον πλανήτη λέμε κι ακόμη παραπέρα! Που λέει και ο Buzz Lightyear ;)
Steve Jobs + Arnold Schwarzenegger + Greek Γιαγιά = Ζωή
Ιnspired by his brush with death last year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Friday made a surprise appearance at Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital to describe how a liver transplant saved his life — and why patients with less wealth and fame should have the same opportunities.
"I was almost one of the ones that died waiting for a liver in California last year," said Jobs, whippet-thin but healthy. He appeared at a brief event with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to unveil a new legislative effort to greatly expand the number of California organ donors.
In his first public description of his much-rumored but long-secret crisis, Jobs said "there were simply not enough livers in California to go around, and
my doctors here advised me to enroll in a transplant program in Memphis, where the supply-demand ratio of livers is more favorable than it is in California."
"I was very fortunate," the notoriously private Apple icon shared with an audience of doctors, transplant patients and media. A Tennessee donor was a match — and Jobs had a jet available to rush cross-country within the four-hour window needed for successful surgery. "Many others died waiting to receive one."
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Jobs' decision to advocate for greater organ donations was applauded by the governor.
"Steve Jobs was very instrumental in getting us here today," the governor said. "He put the pressure on us to get this bill going."
Happily recounting the events that led to the bill, a smiling Schwarzenegger said last Christmas, Jobs "talked to my wife about his transplant and then my wife talked to me about it, and I talked to him about it, and we had these great phone conversations back and forth and now here it is reality — we are introducing the bill."
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Λογικό. Πολύ λογικό. Μπράβο στο Steve Jobs και σε όλους που κάνουν αυτές τις προσπάθειες. Τώρα μόνο να πείσουμε τους δικούς μας "ειδικούς" εδώ στην Ελλάδα να μην σκοτώνουν 12μηνα παιδάκια, έφηβους, ενήλικες και γέροντες χωρίς λόγο, γι αρχή και μετά βλέπουμε και για τις δωρεές οργάνων.
Γι ακόμη μια φορά, μπράβο σε όλους που κάνουν αυτές τις προσπάθειες εκεί στο Αμέρικα.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Το Ubuntu ΔΕΝ είναι δημοκρατία!
After Mark Shuttleworh's recent comment regarding the decision to put the Metacity window buttons on the left, the debate is more intense then ever.
In a recent comment (posted a few seconds ago), Mark Shuttleworth states that:
> It'd have been nice if this comment had been made some time ago,
> together with a deep reasoning on the concrete changes that are in mind.
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> We are supposed to be a community, we all use Ubuntu and contribute to
> it, and we deserve some respect regarding these kind of decisions. We
> all make Ubuntu together, or is it a big lie?
We all make Ubuntu, but we do not all make all of it. In other words, we delegate well. We have a kernel team, and they make kernel decisions. You don't get to make kernel decisions unless you're in that kernel team. You can file bugs and comment, and engage, but you don't get to second-guess their decisions. We have a security team. They get to make decisions about security. You don't get to see a lot of what they see unless you're on that team. We have processes to help make sure we're doing a good job of delegation, but being an open community is not the same as saying everybody has a say in everything.
This is a difference between Ubuntu and several other community distributions. It may feel less democratic, but it's more meritocratic, and most importantly it means (a) we should have the best people making any given decision, and (b) it's worth investing your time to become the best person to make certain decisions, because you should have that competence recognised and rewarded with the freedom to make hard decisions and not get second-guessed all the time.
It's fair comment that this was a big change, and landed without warning. There aren't any good reasons for that, but it's also true that no amount of warning would produce consensus about a decision like this.
> If you want to tell us
> that we are all part of it, we want information, and we want our opinion
> to be decisive.
No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But we are not voting on design decisions.
Mark
Update: he also states that the decision to move the window controls to the left wasn't his:
Some members of the design team asked that the window controls be grouped on the left, and presented the visualisation. So it wasn't that I "prefer it that way". I didn't like it initially, anticipating that it would generate a great deal of resistance. However, it does line things up nicely for work I would like us to do in future. And the major argument against it appears solely to be "we're used to it here", which is important, but not overriding.
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Πολύ καλά τα λέει το μεγάλο αφεντικό του Ubuntu. Ειδικά όταν ακούω:
Το έχω συνηθίσει το τάδε έτσι άρα έτσι θα πρέπει να συνεχίσει να είναι το τάδεή
Όλος ο κόσμος έτσι κάνει άρα και εγώ το ίδιο θα κάνωΜΟΥ ΑΝΕΒΑΙΝΕΙ ΤΟ ΑΙΜΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΕΦΑΛΙ!
ΖΩΑ.
Ευτυχώς που ο Προμηθέας δεν έδωσε τη φωτιά σε κάνα τέτοιο ζώον! Γιατί, βλέπετε, ένα τέτοιο ζώον θα απορούσε τι να την κάνει τη φωτιά και θα την έσβηνε γιατί ΚΑΝΕΙΣ άλλος δεν είχε αυτό το πράγμα και επίσης είχε ΣΥΝΗΘΙΣΕΙ το κρύο, τη μούχλα, κλπ.
Windows PC προϊόντα VS Apple προϊόντα = πολύ γέλιο
PCMag.com's recent article The Best Apple Product Alternatives couldn't smell any more like "bait" without being covered in worms.
Hoping to appeal to those who have some innate desire to not buy from Apple due to "a limited budget or an anti-Apple stance," PCMag put together a list of "alternative" products to Apple gear like the iPhone, iPod touch & iPod shuffle. The headline will surely grab attention, but as a friend of mine used to say, "Is there any meat in that sandwich?"
They start out comparing the iPhone 3GS to the Google Nexus One. The Nexus One will save you $20, but even PCMag rates the Nexus One 3.5/5 stars while the iPhone gets 4/5. The Samsung Mythic SGH-a897 will save you $70 and gets 4/5 stars. Only one catch: it's not a smartphone. It has "Web-based widgets" and apparently shows broadcast TV. Oh, and it's on AT&T too, so if you're turning down the iPhone because of the network, this isn't for you. So far this sounds like comparing my car to my bike and telling me the bike is better because it doesn't require gas.
Next is the iPod touch, listed in the category of "Portable Media Players," and here even PCMag can't keep a straight face: "We won't lie: You won't find a PMP that outperforms the iPod touch. Name another player that's basically an iPhone without the phone, and, well...you can't." They give the iPod touch a 5/5 rating. Their "ideal alternative" is the Sony X Series Walkman NWZ-X1051 (who names these things?) which will cost you $299.95. Oh, remember how the "hook" to this story was lower prices? This one is actually more expensive than the iPod touch. PCMag does offer one other suggestion: you could get a Zune.
Sadly, it gets worse. Read on.
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Τα σπάει το παλικάρι και δεν θα μπορούσα να τα πω καλύτερα εγώ. Βασικά θα μπορούσα αλλά και πάλι μια χαρά τα λέει ;)
Δεν έχουν τι άλλο να πούνε οι Windows τύποι και πετάνε ΟΤΙ μαλακία θέλουν για να μας πείσουν για να πάρουμε σκατόWindows 7 μηχανήματα. Και πριν μου πει κάποιος ότι μια χαρά είναι τα Windows 7, απλά να πω στον εξυπνάκια ότι ναι, μια χαρά ΣΚΑΤΑ είναι τα Windows 7. Ξυπνήστε με όταν θα έχουν τα Windows Expose & Spaces + Drag & Drop + πολλαπλές οθόνες, ισάξια με το Mac OS X. Γιατί ανώτερα δεν παίζει. ΑΠΛΑ δεν παίζει μεγάλε!
Πως λέμε, σαβουρομπιπ-μπιπ. Εσείς είστε σαβουροκομπιουτεράδες. Ντεμεκ. Δήθεν ΚΑΙ καλά κομπιουτεράδες.
ΟΥΣΤ!
Η Apple να αγοράσει την Adobe; Πάλι τα ίδια;
Quick - which Silicon Valley icon creates the computers that creative professionals love? And what SV company creates the software that creative professionals crave?
Right: Apple and Adobe. So why are they 2 separate companies? There’s no good reason, especially now that Adobe’s management can’t figure out how to grow the company.
The numbers
Apple, with over $30 billion in cash, could buy Adobe outright, whose market cap is about $18 billion. A cash and stock offer would also make Adobe shareholders happy.
Apple prefers small, bite size acquisitions. But Apple is a big company: their market cap is 10x Adobe’s.
Integration wouldn’t be hard: the 2 company’s headquarters are a 15 minute drive down I-280. Steve could oversee both. A quicker drive than to Pixar up in E-ville.
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Όπως είχα πει στο παρελθόν:
Πολύ καλή ιδέα στα χαρτιά. Τρελή στην πράξη. Εδώ η Apple δεν προλαβαίνει να παράγει τα προϊόντα που θέλει. Το τελευταίο πράγμα που θα ήθελαν στην Apple είναι και το ντάντεμα της Adobe.
Αχ, Twitter σ' αγαπώ!
Principles, not product. Ev didn't just announce a new service. He unveiled something bigger: Twitter's corporate principles. Though the lion's share of attention fell on @anywhere, Twitter's new service, it should have fallen on Twitter's new principles instead. Principles, not products, are really what make organizations different, unique, better. "Don't be evil": we've seen just how disruptively powerful those three words can be (and, conversely, how costly it can be to backtrack on them). Product announcements are interesting, sometimes — but the real action's in principles announcements, because they define and shape how organizations think, reason,and act.
How is Twitter (or Facebook, or Foursquare) going not merely to "beat" its rivals today — but consistently, decisively outperform them? Not merely with a single product or service, but with the principles from which awesome stuff flows.
Be a force for good. That's Twitter's new foundational principle — and it's interesting because it takes Google's foundational principle and does it one better. Will Twitter live up to it? Perhaps. What's important about it is how it focuses Twitter, as we discussed, on creating real, meaningful, sustainable value. That's something 95% of organizations can't do — but increasingly, exactly what people, communities, and society demand.
Openness as a survival strategy. I asked Ev about why Twitter's been focused on openness, and his response was that it's a "survival strategy." New ideas, new concepts, new applications — all flow to open organizations. That's a great way to express the point that for next-gen organizations, openness is now table stakes: fail at it, and you're not even in the game.
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Έτσι! Να τους ανοίγετε τα στραβά τους! Twitter I love you!
Σ' αγαπώ λέμε!
Αρχές να έχεις και όλα τα άλλα έρχονται θέλουν δεν θέλουν. Και να μην έρθουν, δεν πειράζει. Αυτά χάνουν...
Kindle for Mac;
Ας με ξυπνήσετε όταν αυτή η εφαρμογή θα είναι πιο Mac εφαρμογή. Γιατί τέτοια σαχλαμάρα δεν βάζω σε ΚΑΝΕΝΑ Mac μου.
Έλεος δηλαδή. Μερικές εταιρίες ΔΕΝ την παλεύουν ΟΥΤΕ το 2010!
Έλεος δηλαδή. Μερικές εταιρίες ΔΕΝ την παλεύουν ΟΥΤΕ το 2010!
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